English Dictionary

fable

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfeɪbəl/

動詞

古語 自動詞 他動詞

(intransitive, archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.

日本語の意味

寓話（物語）の創作、つまり寓話や作り話を書くこと / 虚構や事実に反する内容を語る、書くこと

Around the hearth, the villagers fable late into the night, crafting lessons for their children.

暖炉のそばで村人たちは夜遅くまで寓話を創作し、子どもたちに教訓を伝えていた。

意味（1）

(intransitive, archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.

He Fables not, I heare the enemie: / Out ſome light Horſemen, and peruſe their Wings.

意味（2）

(transitive, archaic) To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable.

[…] erre not that ſo ſhall end / The ſtrife of Glorie: which we mean to win, / Or turn this Heav’n itſelf into the Hell / Thou fableſt […]

fables （ present singular third-person ）

fabling （ participle present ）

fabled （ participle past ）

fabled （ past ）